In a future update, I would like to see a different default terminal. The RoxTerm, or any other fancy terminal that comes with a menu, which also has keyboard shortcuts, sound very cool at first, but it is a really bad idea! When you enter a keyboard shortcut to a program that you run in that terminal window, and it is identical to one used by the terminal itself, funny things happen!
Good old Urxvt is a better choice.

I would also like to see the little calendar pop-up when you click the clock in the lower right corner, instead of it launching Osmo

Edit: Sorry, incorrect, but SOLVED anyway!
Clicking on the clock opens PupClockSet by default, but that can be changed back to the little calendar used in earlier puppys. Line 18 in '/root/.jwmrc-tray' can be changed from 'PupClockSet' to 'minixcal', which resides in /usr/X11R7/bin/ . That opens a small calendar window, with has a button in the top line that will start Osmo. Restart jwm to make it work.

tallboy_________________True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.Last edited by tallboy on Thu 21 Mar 2013, 02:46; edited 1 time in total

It would be fine to resume distros :
One with QT
One with Java
One with Python
anything else ?
These huge libraries included in some distros is a good idea, with all software usable with the library included.

Less distros, because each one would have its job. Polarpup has qt 4.8.0 included. Would have liked more software needing QT4 included.

At first glance I saw people crying all over the internet conserning the Atheros 9285 chipset wlan that did not seem to work in any distro... That was correct trying to get it to work with Slacko... Then I tried Precise... and it just WORKED..

Getting a bit excited I thought I rather have my favorite Operating System, Lucid, and it even worked there.

Then... To have the ultimate workmachine as for me, that does not give a damn if I got 3 or 4 gig of ram, as i rather have less ram and Lucid, I came into another challenge... And that is the 1366x768 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 520M with 1GB DDR3 VRAM...

Its my first close to high end laptop and I am really eager to get it to spit out grapichs as if on steroids...

Testing the Precise 5.5 that has PAE, I even think there is quite a huge performance difference going "down" and back to Lucid.

I did have a look around the forum for solutions, but fails to get anything near something showing the 1366x768 in the video wizard...

Anyone that has got some experience with this resolution and Nvidia in Lucid?

Puppy 5.2.8 Lupu has proven to be the most stable, reliable, easy to install Puppy I've found for 5-10yo hardware. This makes it a good distro to recommend to all those other restless Ubuntu users.

To preserve that claim-to-fame, perhaps a granular updating approach might be considered with the objective of enabling us to employ just those new functionalities our hardware can support well.

For example, the most problematic aspect of installing any new version seems to be video. I'd like to be able to apply the video changes required to support some new capability in a separate step with easy roll-back. If they create unsolvable problems, the new functionality could be skipped without losing all new functionalities._________________DocSalvagewww.softwarerevisions.net

I use a celeron desktop in day to day's work. It started with the 52x series. It run Puppy 528-004 for over a year now (I was to lazy to upgrade to 005). Since I moved the desktop to a corner where I did not have an opportunity to run an ethernet cable, I gave it a USB WIFI dongle. It was immediately recognized, and I could connect to the world.
That in it self was amazing .....

2 years later (now) the dongle broke and I was given a new one to try by a friend. I plugged it in, and ...... it was not recognized. Bummer. But ........

In the setup menu I discovered the button "WINDOWS". And yes, I fed the windows driver CD to the desktop, pointed to the 32 bits XP inf file, and ...... it works.

2 years later (now) the dongle broke and I was given a new one to try by a friend. I plugged it in, and ...... it was not recognized. Bummer.

Lupuplus has more wifi drivers than the regular lupu, so might already support your new dongle. Please try that if for no other reason than to confirm that it is supported. Otherwise, please tell us the details of the new device, particularly its hardware ID (which you can find with pupscan or the "lsusb" command). That way, I can research the driver situation for it.

528 still working great with the dongle and windows driver. Used it last night and I achieve almost constantly my maximum bandwidth from the provider (10Mbps downstream, and 1Mbps upstream). I didn't notice a single connection drop.

Thanks for your endless help to Puppy Linux. I remember you have given me good advise before. As I recall (I hope my miemory serves me well, and I don't mix things up) with cups enabling me to connect to a windows PC connected printer via wireless. At that time I was running Puppeee.
But your name pops up often if compatibility issues rise, and it almost always ends with "it works now". Thank you ....

I suggest installing it to a fresh pupsave environment for experimentation. But if you choose to use it in your regular lupu-puppy, I recommend swapping in the lupuplus puppy files (initrd.gz, lupu528.sfs, vmlinuz), which should not disturb anything. But you might try that with a copy of your main pupsave instead of the original, just to be sure.

Thank you for your kind words about my "help". However, I doubt I advised on "cups enabling me to connect to a windows PC connected printer via wireless", since I probably did not know enough at that time. My wifi knowledge has been a result of my seemingly endless work on integrating the Broadcom wl driver and frisbee, all within the past year. But now I am "dangerous" in that area.
Richard

Hi Playdayz,
just writing to thank you (and rerwin ) for your resurrectionist efforts with Lucid. I'm testing a range of pupplets for use on a PIII 500MHz 512MB RAM military-grade laptop, a RT686 that is badged as 'roda', 'Amrel', 'Opentec' or 'ToughNote' on different corners of the globe. Great for some field research I need to do in future, and the Lucid-era applications are practically all I need. Interestingly too, Eduroam is a major wifi enterprise for universities, internationally and only Frisbee (I found) could get me through the extra certificate tunneling whatever - but NOT any Woof-compiled Frisbee versions (?) so your efforts in that department are *especially* appreciated, and have saved me hours of heartache.
Actually I'm still to sort out minor quibbles with the b43 broadcom wifi in pcmcia, and I'm in the process of updating my favourite applications/repository updates. Are there plans to update the Lucid Quickpet with a more recent FireFox perhaps, or other browsers like Qupzilla (and all those qt dependencies...)? These would get my vote, if you had the time / inclination. Belay the latter - slimboat looks really cool...

My main issue is my pupsave - I haven't been able to get a clean shutdown and the machine hangs at "Lucid is shutting down'. On this machine, I have no HDD and only floppy/cd-rom, plus a usb1 port for normal boot ups. I'm running my install off a BootFlash of Lupe Libre 528, but on the vfat partition (4GB) I opted for a pupsave in Ext3 format. Could this be why I can't reboot etc cleanly, do you think I need to start over with a pupsave.2fs? Regrettably I've had to use the usb 1 port rather than the pcmcia card+usb2 ports as I can't get this particular flash drive booting, where I can for other flash drives.
Cheers!_________________Toowoomba Linux Community
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My main issue is my pupsave - I haven't been able to get a clean shutdown and the machine hangs at "Lucid is shutting down'. On this machine, I have no HDD and only floppy/cd-rom, plus a usb1 port for normal boot ups. I'm running my install off a BootFlash of Lupe Libre 528,

Problems like this usually are caused by a bad or corrupted save file.

However you also say this:

Quote:

had to use the usb 1 port rather than the pcmcia card+usb2 ports as I can't get this particular flash drive booting, where I can for other flash drives.

May have a problem caused by the flash drive and how it is working.
Flash drives do not last forever.

The save file being made ext2 (2fs) or ext 3 (3fs) format should not be an issue.

What I would try:
Boot not using a save file (puppy pfix=ram boot option)
At the boot screen hit F2 key.
Add the option
puppy pfix=ram

Shutdown and do not make save file. Should get good shutdown.
If works OK save file is bad.
Easy fix delete old save file and start fresh with new save file.

If startup and shutdown, without using a save file, does not work.

Try boot option

puppy acpi=off
or
puppy acpi=force

If this has no effect.
You have a bad install of Lucid Puppy or a bad flash drive._________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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